Lose weight taking last meal of day by mid-afternoon

Health Desk: Jan. 9, 2017- A new research suggests simply changing your eating schedule like taking the last meal of the day by the mid-afternoon can help burn fat and lose weight.

This meal-timing strategy reduced swings in hunger and altered fat and carbohydrate burning patterns, which may help with losing weight, the study that tested early time-restricted feeding (eTRF) on humans found.

With eTRF, people eat their last meal by the mid-afternoon and do not eat again until breakfast the next morning.

“Eating only during a much smaller window of time than people are typically used to may help with weight loss,” said one of the researchers Courtney Peterson, Associate Professor at University of Alabama at Birmingham in the US.

The human body has an internal clock, and many aspects of metabolism are at their optimal functioning in the morning.

Therefore, eating in alignment with the body’s circadian clock by eating earlier in the day may positively influence health.